@_elena @EUCommission it is baffling to me that they are not using Mastodon (EU instance) as their primary communication tool.

I hear the argument a lot that Mastodon is lacking reach but the instance could literally treated like a government website where the "reach" argument wouldn't count anyways.

@_elena Mastodon is not really not based in one country or one company like other social networks so putting the Mastodon in that map would be misleading (probably not what they were thinking though).

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“Make Europe Great Again” hat.

As the Polish meme goes “I know from whom you are”¹

This movement was kickstarted by Steve Bannon trying to transplant MAGA onto the EU. He found a lot of eager Polish supporters, including MPs and MEPs.

And with those come ties to Russia, as the main adversary of the EU.

1. “A ja wiem od kogo wy są”

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@_elena Thanks for the work! Davos, follow the money, the whole launching of that platform smells like investor's interests and hard lobbyism. When journalists sound like press releases: a sign that they don't have time for more or ... lobbyism. And we all know that lobbyism is one of the biggest problems inside EU structures.
Hope they will not burn too much public money.

For the new accounts, we had a saying in the 1968s: "imagine, they make (war), and nobody joins in." Will
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@_elena @EUCommission Thank you for your amazing work

@_elena don't apologize
@EUCommission should explain their choice

@_elena @EUCommission On the ATmosphere, I have a Eurosky account. It may be better, but they just launched a new ATproto Web interface which requires age declaration...

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I remember when W was announced, the things they emphasised were:

A) "Now Europeans can be the information gatekeepers too!"

B) "Now Europeans can harvest data too!"

It's as if they looked at facebook and twitter and focused on the very worst aspects of them as what they wanted to reproduce, rather than on the basic humans-talking-to-humans aspect.

@_elena @EUCommission the website in the screenshot looks awful 😱

@_elena @EUCommission Unfortunately, no wonder at all.
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@_elena @EUCommission Jfc, they managed to get their own Mastodon server. Why not their own PDS? 🤦‍♂️️ It's not that hard.

@_elena @EUCommission I think your line "platform soft-launched at Davos" rather sums up how this happened 😢.